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OVID, Colo. -- Shortly after daybreak on the high plains of northeastern Colorado, Don Schneider tinkers with seed-dispensing gear on a mammoth corn planter. The day's task: Carefully sowing hundreds of acres of seed between long rows of last year's desiccated stalks to ensure the irrigation water he's collected over the winter will last until harvest time.

OVID • Shortly after daybreak on the high plains of northeastern Colorado, Don Schneider tinkers with seed-dispensing gear on a mammoth corn planter. The day’s task: carefully sowing hundreds of

Nebraskas plan underscores an increasing appetite throughout the West to preemptively secure water as winter snows and year-round rainfall diminish, forcing states to reallocate increasingly scarce flows.

OVID, Colo. (AP) — Shortly after daybreak on the high plains of northeastern Colorado, Don Schneider tinkers with seed-dispensing gear on a mammoth corn planter. The day’s task: Carefully sowing

The megadrought fueled by climate change that has long gripped the western U.S. is moving eastward

The megadrought fueled by climate change that has long gripped the western U.S. is moving eastward